Putin Pulls Press' Strings But Obama Doesn't Have To

Media: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin dissolved his state news agency on Monday, apparently for being insufficiently fawning. President Obama doesn't have to worry about that with the dominant media here.

The ex-KGB officer ruling an eighth of the planet's inhabited land for nearly a decade and a half now, with no end in sight thanks to rigged elections, has abolished RIA Novosti and replaced it with a kind of reborn Radio Moscow.

"Radio Putin," as it should be called, will propagandize to the rest of the world. RIA actually described the purge it is victim of as heralding "a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated media sector."

For our president, whose re-election is of questionable legitimacy now that IRS and Census shenanigans have begun to be exposed, government regulation and state control of the media aren't needed. It would be another of "these big agencies" Obama complains are causing ObamaCare troubles because they're "not designed properly" and are ripe for consolidation.

Who needs a palace propaganda organ when "independent" news sources like Politico bury the revelation that insurance companies don't know "who is enrolling in their plans" under ObamaCare, as it did last week. Instead, it highlighted a scant two-day enrollment period as evidence "the federal exchange is on the mend."

Who needs Putin's court media jesters when a political reporter with decades of experience in Washington like Howard Fineman, a fixture at Newsweek before it was sold off for a dollar, gushes after interviewing Obama about "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see in person a president talking about what it's like to be president, while he's actually president!"

Fineman would sneer at any journalist who said that after interviewing George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan.

Barack Obama is a president who calculatedly "waives" portions of the laws he swore he would faithfully execute, in particular ObamaCare, to shield himself politically.

He has lied about major policies and events. "If you like your doctor," he repeatedly promised, you'll "keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period."

The White House already had to admit the president's claims about his stimulus financing "shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund" were false.

As National Review's Andrew McCarthy quipped last week, Obama's high crimes and misdemeanors range from "recess appointments when Congress was not in recess" to arranging "firearms to be transferred to Mexican drug cartels," resulting in the murder of a Border Patrol agent.

When the U.S. press won't push hard on such issues, we might as well be living in Putin's Russia.

Media: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin dissolved his state news agency on Monday, apparently for being insufficiently fawning. President Obama doesn't have to worry about that with the dominant media here.

The ex-KGB officer ruling an eighth of the planet's inhabited land for nearly a decade and a half now, with no end in sight thanks to rigged elections, has abolished RIA Novosti and replaced it with a kind of reborn Radio Moscow.

"Radio Putin," as it should be called, will propagandize to the rest of the world. RIA actually described the purge it is victim of as heralding "a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated media sector."

For our president, whose re-election is of questionable legitimacy now that IRS and Census shenanigans have begun to be exposed, government regulation and state control of the media aren't needed. It would be another of "these big agencies" Obama complains are causing ObamaCare troubles because they're "not designed properly" and are ripe for consolidation.

Who needs a palace propaganda organ when "independent" news sources like Politico bury the revelation that insurance companies don't know "who is enrolling in their plans" under ObamaCare, as it did last week. Instead, it highlighted a scant two-day enrollment period as evidence "the federal exchange is on the mend."

Who needs Putin's court media jesters when a political reporter with decades of experience in Washington like Howard Fineman, a fixture at Newsweek before it was sold off for a dollar, gushes after interviewing Obama about "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see in person a president talking about what it's like to be president, while he's actually president!"

Fineman would sneer at any journalist who said that after interviewing George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan.

Barack Obama is a president who calculatedly "waives" portions of the laws he swore he would faithfully execute, in particular ObamaCare, to shield himself politically.

He has lied about major policies and events. "If you like your doctor," he repeatedly promised, you'll "keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period."

The White House already had to admit the president's claims about his stimulus financing "shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund" were false.

As National Review's Andrew McCarthy quipped last week, Obama's high crimes and misdemeanors range from "recess appointments when Congress was not in recess" to arranging "firearms to be transferred to Mexican drug cartels," resulting in the murder of a Border Patrol agent.

When the U.S. press won't push hard on such issues, we might as well be living in Putin's Russia.

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